Saks’ Gunpoint Consensus

Jim Grant
By the time the debt narrative is juicy enough for Grant’s, it could be too late: The Saks bondholders let themselves be fleeced of their protective covenants in exchange for a few extra points of interest. Photo: Chris Goodney/Bloomberg/Getty Images
William D. Cohan
August 3, 2025

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Jim Grant’s Grant’s Interest Rate Observer is a bible of sorts for the highly sophisticated slice of Wall Street focused on the machinations in the bond market. That should be everyone, of course, because what happens in the bond market is often the leading indicator of where the financial markets are headed. And where the financial markets go, economic policy soon follows, as Donald Trump discovered after “Liberation Day” and his nutty trade war, which is nothing more than another sales tax on American consumers. (But let’s talk about how much money the tariffs are generating, right, Donald?)